Marin Climate Initiative

08/26/09 The statistics are always staggering and a recent tragic event in Novato has prompted us to bring domestic violence back to the forefront. Almost one-third of all women murdered in this country are killed by a domestic partner. As advocates for justice for victims of domestic violence, we continue to put domestic violence on the front burner of our crime prevention efforts. Domestic    .. more …

Today when the whole world is suffering from huge energy crisis, renewable sources of energy is the only alternative to save the earth from total energy black outs. Therefore, investing in renewable energy projects has good prospects. If you are investing in harnessing green fuels you are actually taking an eco-friendly step.Some of the benefits of utilizing green energy are: reduction in    .. more …

PARIS, Sept 1, 2010 (AFP) – Ministers from nearly four dozen countries meet in Geneva on Thursday and Friday, bidding for progress on climate finance, an issue that has bedevilled the quest to roll back global warming.The meeting will signal how far negotiations have progressed – or not – since the UN climate summit in Copenhagen last December, a near-fiasco overseen by more than 120 heads of    .. more …

Trying to pin down the arguments of wind promoters is a bit like trying to grab a greased balloon. Just when you think you’ve got a handle on it, it squirts away. Let’s take a quick highlight review of how things have evolved.1 – Wind energy was abandoned well over a hundred years ago, as it was totally inconsistent with our burgeoning more modern needs of power, even in the late 1800s. When we    .. more …

By Rick Pluta Michigan and Wisconsin have agreed to cooperate on efforts to study and slow the effects of climate change in the Great Lakes region. The agreement allows Michigan to adopt Wisconsin’s climate plan, which is further along in development.Michael Beaulac, with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment, says it makes sense to cooperate because Great Lakes shipping,    .. more …

A couple of years in the past, solar panels for properties had been extra an indication of prestige and eco-friendliness than a plausible choice to being hooked up to the facility grid for most folks. The general public merely couldn’t manage to pay for to install the panels, which might have taken greater than a life-time to pay themselves off. At most, they could be used to counterpoint anyone’s    .. more …

Any scientist who has not sold his soul to the environmental movement will tell you that the reason that greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide (CO2), do not cause any warming is due to the fact that they have to conform to the laws of thermodynamics. The first law states that “energy can be neither created nor destroyed. It can only change form.”Energy produced by coal, natural gas, oil, or    .. more …